Wirth v. State

The appellant was convicted of the offense of theft of $20,000 or more but less than $100,00o. 1 The Sixth Court of Appeals held that the evidence was legally insufficient to support the appellant’s conviction and rendered a judgment of acquittal. 2 The State, viewing the Court of Appeals’s opinion as conflicting with the opinions of this court as well as the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, filed a petition for discretionary review. We agree with the State that the Court of Appeals erred in its sufficiency analysis, and we shall reverse that Court’s decision and reinstate the appellant’s…